Oct. 31, 2018, marks a a decade since Satoshi Nakamoto published his White Paper introducing Bitcoin, the world’s first electronic cash technology.
In September, Goldman Sachs had dismissed reports of starting trade of bitcoin derivatives, but new reports suggest the company has already taken on clients for its new business.
Bitcoin is not a legally accepted currency in China but that does not prevent it from being protected by law as property, according to the Asian country's arbitration body.
Canada-based cryptocurrency exchange MapleChange said Sunday it had no money left to pay anyone, and hence was forced to close down operations and its associated social media accounts as well.
The proposed new regulations require blockchain users in China to register with their real names and national ID card numbers, taking away one of the intrinsic properties of blockchain — anonymity.
OxyMonster, the dark web dealer, confessed to selling drugs like oxycodone, heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, and Ritalin in exchange for cryptocurrencies bitcoin and bitcoin cash.
Elon Musk offered someone bitcoin and Twitter locked his account.
One of the video gamers involved in the theft revealed the hackers intimidated him to be a part of the thieving group by threatening to SWAT him — the act of making a hoax call to emergency services.
Recent research suggested that for many months now, bitcoin has met all the important criteria of financial maturity and it could be a better currency than might seem at first glance.
The announcement by US Marshals said the sealed bid auction will sell bitcoin — worth approximately $4.3 million in today's prices — that were forfeited in federal criminal, civil, and administrative cases.
A responsible investment non-profit organization said on Wednesday it aims to develop a blockchain tool to track companies’ sustainable commitments, to help identify those not keeping up with their ethical credentials.
Gary Gensler, former chairman of Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said a market for cryptocurrencies would need more protection than commodities like oil, corn or weed.
Fidelity Digital Assets was launched after a survey found 70 percent of institutional investors said new asset classes would likely emerge because of advancing technologies, such as blockchain.
This kind of volatility in the cryptocurrency market could indicate that more "seasoned investors" with wider portfolios were getting into cryptocurrencies, according to some experts.
During an initial coin offering in February, an investor subscribed to buy 530 token of the ICO, but was instead sent 530 ethereum tokens instead by the cryptocurrency exchange.
The partnership between PricewaterhouseCoopers and Cred is aimed to build trust and establish standards in place to support the next 10 million users of cryptocurrency assets.
A report by the World Trade Organization said that Ripple, the remittance network, "has ambitions to circumvent the correspondent banking model through its distributed ledger platform."
The contribution by Yale University is considered significant the investment is headed by David F. Swensen, chief investment officer at the university and a pioneer in institutional investing.
Bram Cohen, one of the creators of BitTorrent, is set to launch his Chia cryptocurrency in 2019, and he said mining it would be like "farming."
Price manipulation has been a huge concern in the cryptocurrency market that has affected both the growth of cryptocurrencies and their regulatory acceptance.
Tiger Global Management is in talks with cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, which was valued at $1.6 billion in August after a $100 investment million by a venture capital firm.
Currently, Coinbase supports five cryptocurrencies - bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ethereum, ethereum classic, and litecoin - on its exchange platform.